Carey Gillam

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Carey Gillam
Born
Overland Park, Kansas, U.S.
OccupationInvestigative journalist
NationalityAmerican

Carey Gillam is an American investigative journalist and author. [1] [2] [3]

Gillam was born in Overland Park, Kansas. [4] She started her career as a general assignment reporter for two small newspapers in Kansas. [5] Gillam spent several years working for the chain of business publications owned by American City Business Journals before joining the Thomson Corporation as a banking reporter covering southeast regional bank holding companies. She joined Reuters News Agency [1] in 1998 where she covered agriculture, commodities markets, and general news assignments. Gillam left Reuters in October 2015 and has since appeared in The Guardian , Time , UnDark and other outlets.

In 2016 Gillam joined U.S. Right to Know, [6] an investigative research group funded by the Organic Consumers Association. [7] In 2022, she became the managing editor of The New Lede, a news organization funded by the Environmental Working Group. [8] [9] She won the One World Media Environmental Reporting Award in 2025, together with Lighthouse Reports, for a series of article on the propaganda of agrochemical and biotech companies in defense of pesticides and GMOs in Africa and Europe. [10]

Gillam's 2017 book Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science received the 2018 Rachel Carson Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists. [4] [11]

Gillam's articles have been accused of being anti-science and spreading disinformation. [12]

References

  1. 1 2 "World Forum for Democracy 2019: Speakers – Carey Gillam". Council of Europe . Retrieved November 28, 2020.
  2. ↑ "I'm a journalist. Monsanto built a step-by-step strategy to destroy my reputation: Carey Gillam". The Guardian . August 9, 2019. Retrieved November 28, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Carey Gillam Biosketch" (PDF). European Parliament.
  4. 1 2 Mannette, Alice (March 13, 2021). "This Kansas reporter is taking on a top chemical company with her pen". The Hutchinson News .
  5. ↑ Hiar, Corbin (October 5, 2018). "Newsmaker: Meet the crusading reporter brawling with Big Ag". Environment & Energy Publishing . Retrieved November 28, 2020.
  6. ↑ Frisch, Tracy (March 9, 2018). "Monsanto's Toxic Legacy: An Investigative Reporter Talks Glyphosate". In These Times .
  7. ↑ Bredderman, William (November 6, 2021). "This Fave Mainstream Media Source Is Funded by Anti-Vaxxers". The Daily Beast . Retrieved October 6, 2024.
  8. ↑ "#SEJSpotlight: Carey Gillam, Managing Editor, The New Lede; Freelance Journalist". www.sej.org. Society of Environmental Journalists. June 9, 2022. Retrieved September 21, 2023.
  9. ↑ "Carey Gillam". The Guardian. Retrieved September 21, 2023.
  10. ↑ "Winners 2025". One World Media. Retrieved July 10, 2025.
  11. ↑ "Winners: SEJ 17th Annual Awards for Reporting on the Environment". Society of Environmental Journalists. July 4, 2018. Retrieved September 4, 2025.
  12. ↑ Kabat, Geoffrey (May 4, 2021). "Viewpoint: Advocacy disguised as journalism? Meet Carey Gillam, the prolific purveyor of crop biotechnology and agri-chemical disinformation". Genetic Literacy Project . Retrieved October 6, 2024.


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